Id. (emphasis added) (quoting Cuka v. School Bd. of Bon Homme School Dist. No. 4-2 of Bon Homme Cnty. , 264 N.W.2d 924, 926 (S.D. 1978) ). "When the threatened injury ‘will affect not only the other freeholders besides the plaintiffs, but all the inhabitants of that local district, whether they are freeholders or not[,] the injury is not personal but rather an injury to all citizens and members of the community.’ " Id. (quoting Wood v. Bangs , 46 N.W. 586, 588, 1 Dakota 179 (Dakota Terr. 1875) ).
"[O]nly such persons as might be able affirmatively to show that they were aggrieved in the sense that by the decision of the board they suffered the denial of some claim of right, either of person or property, or the imposition of some burden or obligation in their personal or individual capacity, as distinguished from any grievance they might suffer in their capacities as members of the body public." Cuka v. School Bd. of Bon Homme School Dist. No. 1-2 of Bon Homme County, 264 N.W.2d 924, 926 (S.D. 1978) (quoting Camp Crook Independent School Distr. No. 1 v. Shevling, 65 S.D. 14, 26, 270 N.W. 518, 524 (1936); Blumer v. School Board of Beresford Ind. Sch. Dist. No. 68 of Union County, 250 N.W.2d 282, 284 (S.D. 1977)). When the threatened injury "will affect not only the other freeholders besides the plaintiffs, but all the inhabitants of that local district, whether they are freeholders or not[,] the injury is not personal but rather an injury to all citizens and members of the community."
We have adhered to the Barnum test for an "aggrieved party" in several school board review cases. Cuka v. School Bd. of Bon Homme Sch. Dist., 264 N.W.2d 924, 926 (S.D. 1978); Blumer v. Sch. Bd. of Beresford Ind. S.D., 250 N.W.2d 282, 284 (S.D. 1977); Camp Crook Independent School Dist. No. 1 v. Shevling, 65 S.D. 14, 26, 270 N.W. 518, 524 (1936); but cf. Valley State Bank of Canton v. Farmers State Bank, 87 S.D. 614, 213 N.W.2d 459 (1973) (which was decided on South Dakota banking statutes, rather than an explicit test). NSP claims that it does have standing in this Court because the PUC's deferral deprives NSP of the money it requested during the time taken to resolve the Tyrone issue. Based upon Barnum and its progeny, we agree.